Category Archives: Hair Loss

If you are losing your hair, you may be wondering whether to use Propecia or not. Propecia is a drug used to treat hair loss, but it can have some serious side effects, particularly for pregnant women. Propecia will cause birth defects in unborn fetuses and women are told not even to handle the tables so that it does not become absorbed through the skin when they are pregnant. There also appears to be some evidence that it is not effective on post-menopausal women. However, for men it is still a tool in the arsenal against hair loss. The product has been shown to work approximately for half of the men, who use it, but use must be continued long-term or the hair loss comes back.